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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1999458, member: 12789&quot;]The answer is that even in that <i>low </i>grade they are pretty scarce as most of the coins circulated a very long time.&nbsp; England and then the United Kingdom after 1707 was very chintzy about minting low value coins until the beginning of the 19th century.&nbsp; Even silver coins got rather scarce in the 17th and 18th century - so much so that coins were imported and tokens made especially for farthing and halfpenny denominations.&nbsp; So 17th century coins would have likely circulated until they were nearly 100 years old and most of the examples you see are very very heavily worn.</p><p><br /></p><p>So VF-20 may seem like a low grade, but for a halfpenny, particularly from that reign - it is actually a pretty high grade coin.&nbsp; Your coin is much nicer than my English halfpennies and comparable to some of the very rare in the grade Scottish bawbees from that reign that I have.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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